WASHINGTON  President Obama plans to push Congress to move quickly in the coming months on an ambitious overhaul of the immigration system that would include a path to citizenship for most of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the country, senior administration officials and lawmakers said last week.

Mr. Obama and Senate Democrats will propose the changes in one comprehensive bill, the officials said, resisting efforts by some Republicans to break the overhaul into smaller pieces  separately addressing young illegal immigrants, migrant farmworkers or highly skilled foreigners  which might be easier for reluctant members of their party to accept.

The president and Democrats will also oppose measures that do not allow immigrants who gain legal status to become American citizens one day, the officials said.

Even while Mr. Obama has been focused on fiscal negotiations and gun control, overhauling immigration remains a priority for him this year, White House officials said. Top officials there have been quietly working on a broad proposal. Mr. Obama and lawmakers from both parties believe that the early months of his second term offer the best prospects for passing substantial legislation on the issue.

Mr. Obama is expected to lay out his plan in the coming weeks, perhaps in his State of the Union address early next month, administration officials said. The White House will argue that its solution for illegal immigrants is not an amnesty, as many critics insist, because it would include fines, the payment of back taxes and other hurdles for illegal immigrants who would obtain legal status, the officials said.

A bipartisan group of senators has also been meeting to write a comprehensive bill, with the goal of introducing legislation as early as March and holding a vote in the Senate before August.

in 2010 30,000,000 Democrat voters who'd showed up in 2008 didn't show up!

The same thing will happen in 2012 ~ Democrats are burdened with several tens of millions of voters who think all you have to do is vote for President and your stuff goes to the top of the pile.

BTW, in 2006, about 26,000,000 Republican voters who'd showed up in 2004 didn't show up!

That's the year the big campaign issue was Mark Foley and the failure of the Republican leadership in the House to address that problem head on.

Now a guy can't even shave his chest, so that situation may be fixed. The Democrats also disposed of Rep. Masa in a New York second! Seems to be some agreement on the place of gay blades ~ they can get married, but stay outta' the Congress and the Page program.

vimeo.com..... “Agenda:Grinding America Down” best documentary I have ever seen. It is a excellent summary of one component... the most important. As it indicates in the conclusion all others are sideshows.

In 2050, there will be two political parties in the Socialist States of America - the Democrats and the Partidad de la Raza (PLR)

In 2060, there will a PLR President who will be an American Hugo Chavez. It will be fitting for that generation to watch their liberties be taken away, starting with the media. That will be the most enjoyable part - the children of the current media being thrown in jail.

Michele Bachman could have stopped this by
Not bailing out on getting rid of Bonehead as the leader !
Now we have the alcoholic K street crook and weepy boozer
As our front man along with traitor Mitchy McConnell!
We are in trouble

RE:” President Obama plans to push Congress to move quickly in the coming months on an ambitious overhaul of the immigration system that would include a path to citizenship for most of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the country, senior administration officials and lawmakers said last week. Mr. Obama and Senate Democrats will propose the changes in one comprehensive bill, the officials said, resisting efforts by some Republicans to break the overhaul into smaller pieces  separately addressing young illegal immigrants, migrant farmworkers or highly skilled foreigners  which might be easier for reluctant members of their party to accept. “

No big surprise there.

The conventional(liberal) wisdom is that Hispanics came out and voted in huge numbers for Dems 2012 punishing Rs , so R's will have learned to appease them by signing on to his amnesty out of fear.

But to look at it another way, and the GOP amnesty crowd on Sunday news shows are scared to say this: Why the hell would the R House go along with O to create many more Dem voters esp after 2012? Anybody see anyone given amnesty in a Obama pushed bill voting against Dems?

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posted on 01/12/2013 7:53:31 PM PST
by sickoflibs
(Losing to O is NO principle!)

I always suspected the gun push is a stalking horse and they really want badly is amnesty !
It’s the old dem play book .
The gun deal will be bloody and amnesty will be peddled as bringing us all together !!

Excellent video that explains why they're overwhelming the system. They're throwing everything at us - as much as they can, as fast as they can - to accomplish their decades old agenda of destroying America.

about 32 mil fewer total voters came to the polls in 2010.....
and 30.7 mil were Dems who voted in 2008 but did not in 2010? How can that be? 30 mil Dems stayed home in off year election and only 1 mil Repubs stayed home?

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posted on 01/12/2013 9:23:37 PM PST
by doug from upland
(Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)

Whatever legislation Obama pushes it is always about consolidating the partisan power base. Last summer, while he bantered with reporters, I heard Obama say almost gleefully, “Texas will be a battleground state soon.” The DNC plan is to make the Southwest solid Blue by 2020. That's what this is all about. The reason this wasn't brought up in the last term was because most unions opposed it. They feared a bunch of barefoot Mestizos taking their jobs. But the labor movement has taken horrendous losses since 2010 and they're desperate.

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posted on 01/12/2013 10:24:41 PM PST
by Brad from Tennessee
(A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)

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